Dr. Dindo P. Café

Dr. Dindo P. Café is currently the chair and faculty of the Department of Behavioral Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology and Master of Arts in Sociology and Community Development from the University of Philippines Diliman and University of the Philippines Los Banos respectively. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences majoring in Political Science from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas-Tacloban College. His international engagements include teaching in an international educational program as a visiting professor at Chonbuk National University, South Korea.  He was a recipient of a research grant from Sumitomo Foundation for an ethnography on transcultural identities of Japanese-Filipino Children (JFC) in Tokyo, Japan. He has been involved in different consultancy research with different institutions like UNICEF, AUSAID, Plan International, DSWD, CHED, NCCA, along with others. He presented papers in various international conferences including those in Cambridge University, United Kingdom, Thammasat University in Thailand, etcetera.  Also, he has actively published in international and local journals on topics that include representations of calamity in social media, local concepts of calamity among indigenous peoples, sustainable development among indigenous peoples in mining milieu, cross-cultural identities of migrant Filipinos, social and cultural identities of indigenous peoples, and indigenous religion among others.